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• Coronavirus: 177 new cases, no new deaths in reported Orange County on Oct. 12

  12-10-2020 23:35
  
  The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 117 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, Oct. 12, increasing the cumulative total to 55,892 cases.
  The county’s seven-day average for cases, with a seven-day lag time, is 197 new cases per day as of Sept. 28, about what it was this time in August.
  The county has had an estimated 4,962 cases in the last 30 days.
  There were no news deaths reported from the coronavirus as of Monday, The county has had 1,341 deaths related to the virus reported
  
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• Southland faces broiling weather again this week

  12-10-2020 23:18
  
  A heatwave will once again pour into Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties beginning Tuesday, Oct. 12, forecasters say, and last through Friday.
  “It is going to be very warm again this week,” said David Sweet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “So drink lots of water. Avoid too much exposure to daytime heat.”
  It will be hot and dry in the four counties, with a high-pressure system bringing temperatures from the 90s to the 100s to many
  
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• Southern California faces broiling weather again this week

  12-10-2020 23:18
  
  A heatwave will once again pour into Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties beginning Tuesday, Oct. 12, forecasters say, and last through Friday.
  “It is going to be very warm again this week,” said David Sweet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “So drink lots of water. Avoid too much exposure to daytime heat.”
  It will be hot and dry in the four counties, with a high-pressure system bringing temperatures from the 90s to the 100s to many
  
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• Orange Lutheran offensive tackle Jason White commits to Boise State

  12-10-2020 22:50
  
  Boise State has secured another commitment from an elite Orange County lineman.
  Orange Lutheran High senior tackle Jason White (6-4, 290) recently committed to the Mountain West Conference contender, picking the Broncos over offers from five Pac-12 schools, Florida and Kansas State among others.
  “He had a great connection with Coach (Bryan) Harsin and his staff,” Orange Lutheran coach JP Presley said of White.
  “Boise State has a great track record of success within their confer
  
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• Another gem for Boise State, Orange Lutheran offensive tackle Jason White commits to Broncos

  12-10-2020 22:50
  
  Boise State has secured another commitment from an elite Orange County lineman.
  Orange Lutheran senior tackle Jason White (6-4, 290) recently committed to the Mountain West Conference contender, picking the Broncos over five Pac-12 offers, Florida and Kansas State among others.
  “He had a great connection with Coach (Bryan) Harsin and his staff,” Orange Lutheran coach JP Presley said.
  “Boise State has a great track record of success within their conference and nationally, along
  
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• Lakers, LeBron James enjoy the view from the top

  12-10-2020 22:34
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — From the top, the view is clearer.
  LeBron James had the vantage point of a champion late on Sunday night, and he seemed reflective in between puffs of his cigar. With 17 years of his career under his belt, so much of what he says can feel rehearsed. But from his spot on stage, minutes after cradling the Larry O’Brien Award and the Finals MVP trophy in each hand, a well-practiced champion had a moment to think about what he had never done before.
  Were any of h
  
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• Report: Fountain Valley hospital failed to control COVID-19 spread among patients and staff

  12-10-2020 22:24
  
  Lax infection control protocols set in place by Fountain Valley Regional Hospital administrators put patients and staff at increased risk of catching the coronavirus, hospital inspectors said.
  During the pandemic’s mid-July surge in Orange County, hospital administrators “failed to ensure an effective, active hospital-wide infection control program for the prevention, control and investigation of infections and communicable diseases, including COVID-19,” a recent report by stat
  
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• Joe Biden should rebuke court-packing idea

  12-10-2020 22:08
  
  Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s refusal to answer a straightforward question about “court packing” not only is frustrating for voters, but undermines his main election theme of rolling back the norm-busting behavior of President Donald Trump. Few things would upend our democratic norms more than jiggering the makeup of the Supreme Court.
  The goal of packing is to change the current conservative direction of the court by adding progressive-oriented justices. The last serious atte
  
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• Newsom’s team heading to Disney World to inspect reopening protocols

  12-10-2020 22:06
  
  Gov. Gavin Newsom said a team from his administration will head to Florida to inspect the reopening protocols of Walt Disney World ahead of issuing COVID-19 health and safety guidelines for Disneyland and other California theme parks.
  Newsom commented on amusement parks reopening guidelines during a news conference on Monday, Oct. 12.
  Disneyland and other California theme parks remain closed amid the COVID-19 pandemic while they await long-promised reopening guidelines from the state.
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• Disneyland to lay off 200 actors as ‘Frozen Live’ and ‘Mickey and the Magical Map’ close amid pandemic

  12-10-2020 21:00
  
  The Disneyland resort plans to lay off more than 200 actors as the “Frozen” and “Mickey and the Magical Map” live shows lower their curtains for good after yearslong runs while Disney’s Anaheim theme parks remain shuttered amid the pandemic.
  End of run notices have been sent to actors in the “Frozen: Live at the Hyperion” at Disney California Adventure and “Mickey and the Magical Map” at Disneyland, according to the American Guild of Variety
  
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• Ryan Easterday, Bryan Yoon selected as Great American Rivalry Series scholar athletes

  12-10-2020 20:41
  
  Ryan Easterday of Edison and Bryan Yoon of Fountain Valley are Great American Rivalry Series Scholar Athletes for this football season.
  The honors are part of the Great American Rivalry Series that focuses on and publicizes high school football rivalries, with the United States Marine Corps as presenting sponsor. Edison vs. Fountain Valley is one of Southern California football’s top rivalries.
  Related Articles Mater Dei receiver corps shifts with arrival of Cooper Barkate, departure of Cr
  
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• Easterday, Yoon selected as Great American Rivalry Series scholar athletes

  12-10-2020 20:41
  
  Ryan Easterday of Edison and Bryan Yoon of Fountain Valley are Great American Rivalry Series Scholar Athletes for this football season.
  The honors are part of the Great American Rivalry Series that focuses on and publicizes high school football rivalries, with the United States Marine Corps as presenting sponsor. Edison vs. Fountain Valley is one of Southern California football’s top rivalries.
  Easterday, a senior offensive lineman who was All-Orange County second team in 2019, and Yoon, a
  
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• Construction work temporarily closes Fullerton courthouse

  12-10-2020 20:26
  
  Court visitors should avoid the Fullerton courthouse this month because the facility will be fully closed until at least Nov. 6 to address building-safety concerns.
  In the midst of ongoing construction in portions of the court facility, workers found cracks in sections on some floors, said Kostas Kalaitzidis, Orange County Superior Court’s spokesman.
  While inspectors have confirmed that the building’s structural integrity has not been compromised, the movement of the ground loosened
  
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• UCLA football coach Chip Kelly talks about the Bruins’ 4-2-5 defense

  12-10-2020 20:23
  
  Through the first few days of UCLA football’s training camp in preparation for its season opener at Colorado on Nov. 7, much of the talk has centered around the Bruins’ 4-2-5 defense that new defensive backs coach Brian Norwood is helping employ after the Bruins’ defense had bottomed out, not even ranking in the top 100 the past two seasons.
  Norwood was brought over from Navy, and the Bruins also added defensive line coach Johnny Nansen (from USC) to join defensive coordinator
  
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• Holiday shopping starts earlier than ever thanks to pandemic

  12-10-2020 20:03
  
  By Joseph Pisani and Anne D’Innocenzio | The Associated Press
  Add last-minute holiday shopping to the list of time-honored traditions being upended by the coronavirus pandemic. Retailers are kicking off the holiday season earlier than ever this year in hopes of avoiding big in-store crowds and shipping bottlenecks in November and December.
  Stores like Best Buy, Macy’s, and Target typically offer their biggest Black Friday deals over Thanksgiving weekend, but now they’re startin
  
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• 20 outdoor patios for date night dining: OC’s Best Places to Eat 2020

  12-10-2020 20:02
  
  After being cooped up indoors for months, everyone is understandably eager to make date night a real thing again. And while indoor dining rooms have begun to reopen, most diners would still prefer to sit outdoors for now, at least for a little while longer. Here are 20 ways to ease back into date night, 2020 style.
  Related linksWhere to eat in Orange County in 2020: A guide to the best places
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  The scene: Although a new indoor dining room is i
  
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• Tips: How to set up your home office

  12-10-2020 19:30
  
  If you live alone, you can sprawl your work across the dining room table or your living room, and nobody will mess with your stuff.
  If you have roommates, family, pets or kids, however, finding a good place to work can be complicated — especially if you have an open floor plan, which can get noisy, crowded and offer little privacy.
  But if you can find a good spot and invest in some ergonomic furniture, working from home can allow you to be even more productive than at the office.
  After all
  
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• The Los Angeles Lakers Championship is exactly what 2020 needed

  12-10-2020 19:30
  
  Today’s most significant story is some of the best news of the year – the Los Angeles Lakers just won the NBA championship! If you’re a Laker fan, or even a Los Angeles native, this is just what we needed. With the passing of Kobe and Gigi Bryant along with seven others in January 2020, we felt that this is the best thing that could have happened to honor them all. As we’ve seen all over social media, the hard work paid off. The LA Lakers dominated the game on Sunday, Oct
  
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• The Eagles will premiere new ‘Eagles Live From The Forum MMXVIII’ on SiriusXM

  12-10-2020 19:29
  
  Eagles fans can get a first listen of the forthcoming “Eagles Live From The Forum MMXVIII” live album as SiriusXM’s Classic Vinyl channel 26 broadcasts the release starting at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12.
  Back in September 2018, the Eagles featuring Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Schmit, Vince Gill and Deacon Frey headlined three sold-out evenings at The Forum in Inglewood. Highlights from those concerts were recorded and compiled for the forthcoming “Eagles Live From
  
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• Video: Election experts talk Nov. 3 facts and fictions

  12-10-2020 19:16
  
  The news lately has been full of questions about the Nov. 3 election. People are wondering whether the U.S. Postal Service will be able to return vote-by-mail ballots on time, how any potential attempts at fraud would be prevented, and when we may have all the votes counted from what is projected to be record high turnout.
  While no one has a crystal ball, election experts can provide some insight, so the Orange County Register gathered three of them – political science professors Mike Alva
  
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• This Halloween, try these holiday decorating tips to celebrate safely during the pandemic

  12-10-2020 19:16
  
  No, Halloween has not been canceled. If anything, trendwatchers say, people who are in need of traditions and normalcy are embracing the opportunity to decorate their homes.
  Of course, it will be different this year, as the pandemic calls for adjustments to trick-or-treating and avoidance of large gatherings.  
  “It’s not ‘No Halloween,’ it’s smaller Halloween,” said Tom Mirabile, the principal and founder of home industry insights company Springboard
  
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• Rose Queen and Royal Court selection postponed until 2022

  12-10-2020 18:59
  
  The Rose Queen and Royal Court, ephemeral staples of the Tournament of Roses parade, will not be a part of the tournament’s scaled-back New Year’s Day festivities for 2021, organizers announced Monday morning, Oct. 12.
  While the Tournament of Roses canceled the annual parade over the summer, citing coronavirus concerns, marking only the fourth cancellation in its 132-year history, the fate of the Rose Queen and Royal Court was left up in the air.
  The Tournament of Roses has said ther
  
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• USC RB Markese Stepp looking like healthy self to start camp

  12-10-2020 18:54
  
  USC’s running back group endured several injuries during the 2019 season. But as the 2020 training camp starts, the unit is receiving some more promising health evaluations.
  Redshirt sophomore Markese Stepp is starting to look like his old, healthy self through the first two practices of camp, head coach Clay Helton said on Monday.
  Stepp tore a ligament in his ankle just under a year ago, an injury that required surgery and ended a season in which he averaged 6.4 yards per carry and scored
  
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• At least 76 arrested after Laker fans crowd into Downtown LA

  12-10-2020 18:46
  
  Police arrested 76 people after more than 1,000 Los Angeles Lakers fans gathered near Staples Center on Sunday following the team’s NBA Finals win, with fans packing Figueroa Street just outside the arena to wave flags and chant.“KOBE. KOBE. KOBE.”
  STAPLES Center is the place to be rn. pic.twitter.com/BCRHxMHgDy
  — SLAM (@SLAMonline) October 12, 2020After a line of Los Angeles Police Department officers arrived on foot and in their vehicles, some fans threw glass bottles,
  
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• Dodgers NLCS roster: Edwin Rios returns and team adds pitching

  12-10-2020 18:42
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas >> With the prospect of playing games each of the next seven days without a break, the Dodgers added pitching and will carry 15 pitchers for the National League Championship Series beginning Monday night.
  Along with left-hander Alex Wood, Edwin Rios was added to the roster for the NLCS against the Atlanta Braves. Rios missed the Division Series against the San Diego Padres with a minor groin injury and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Rios would likely be available only t
  
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• Video: OC Registrar of Voters answers Nov. 3 election FAQs

  12-10-2020 18:39
  
  Most Orange County voters have likely received their mail ballots by now, and OC Registrar of Voter Neal Kelley is already getting them back in record numbers.
  If you haven’t voted yet and have questions – where can mail ballots be dropped off? When do in-person vote centers open? Is the county’s election system secure? – you may find answers here in this interview with Kelley.
  Kelley recently sat down with OC Register reporter Alicia Robinson to share voter information a
  
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• Home office demand takes off as pandemic drags on

  12-10-2020 18:00
  
  After seven months of working out of a makeshift workspace in the loft of her two-story home, Rachel Quigley is ditching her plain, wooden desk for a permanent home office with all the trimmings.
  It will have a 7 1/2-foot-long built-in desk with room for computers and a printer, drawers and cabinets as well as a spare workstation for her trainees.
  “We wanted to make it more of an office space and less of a loft,” said Quigley, 31, of San Juan Capistrano, a real estate transaction coo
  
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• Huntington Beach City Council candidates field questions about the COVID-19 economy and housing

  12-10-2020 17:53
  
  The Orange County Register reached out to the 15 Huntington Beach City Council candidates with questions about economic issues, homelessness, affordable housing and leadership.
  Four candidates did not respond: Sonya Green, business owner; Casey McKeon, business owner serving on the Huntington Beach Finance Commission; Billy O’Connell, founder of Colette’s Children’s Home and former city councilman; and Jacob “Tito” Ortiz, Mixed Martial Arts fighter and owner of Puni
  
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• Joe Morgan, driving force of Big Red Machine, dies at 77

  12-10-2020 17:49
  
  By JOE KAY
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Joe Morgan, the Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of the Big Red Machine and the prototype for baseball’s artificial turf era, has died. He was 77.
  He died at his home Sunday in Danville, California, family spokesman James Davis said in statement Monday. Morgan was suffering from a nerve condition, a form of polyneuropathy.
  Morgan’s death marked the latest among major league greats this year: Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, To
  
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• Fullerton, Los Alamitos asking voters to add local sales tax in November election

  12-10-2020 17:34
  
  In what has become an election year trend, Fullerton and Los Alamitos are the latest municipalities in Orange County to ask voters to approve a local sales tax increase to bolster lagging city finances.
  Measure S in Fullerton and Measure Y in Los Alamitos would raise sales tax in those cities to 9% and to 9.25%, respectively.
  If the measures succeed, they will become the 10th and 11th Orange County cities since 2008 to lift their sales tax above the 7.75% countywide rate.
  The 1.5 percent propose
  
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• Status Update: Blue Nile, an online jeweler, opening showroom at Fashion Island

  12-10-2020 17:30
  
  If you’ve ever wanted to try on that platinum, 2-carat, cushion-cut diamond engagement ring seen at bluenile.com, you can — in November.
  Blue Nile, once an exclusive online jeweler, is opening a showroom Nov. 2 at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. It will be the company’s first store in California.
  For 20 years, the company has specialized in selling engagement rings and fine jewelry online. To expand its reach, Blue Nile has opened five U.S. retail stores in Washington state, O
  
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• Alexander: Lakers’ Rob Pelinka has the last laugh

  12-10-2020 17:00
  
  If Rob Pelinka were so inclined, he could have used the occasion Sunday night to have a hearty laugh at our expense.
  Go back nearly 17 months, to the day that Frank Vogel was introduced as the Lakers’ head coach. That morning, Magic Johnson – who had left his VP of basketball operations position a month earlier, hinting of difficulties working with General Manager Pelinka – came out with both barrels blasting on an ESPN talk show, reinforcing the narratives that Pelinka was bac
  
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• 2 Americans from Stanford University win economics Nobel for improving auction theory

  12-10-2020 16:12
  
  STOCKHOLM — Two American economists won the Nobel Prize for improving how auctions work, research that underlies much of today’s economy — from the way Google sells advertising to the way telecoms companies acquire airwaves from the government.
  The discoveries of Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson, both of Stanford University, “have benefitted sellers, buyers and taxpayers around the world,” the Nobel Committee said.
  Wilson was once Milgrom’s Ph.D. adviser,
  
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• Local district elections open doors for minorities in Orange County cities

  12-10-2020 16:00
  
  In November 2018, Costa Mesa made history when voters for the first time elected a Latino to the City Council. In fact, three Latinos were catapulted to victory on the seven-member panel in that landmark election.
  But it wasn’t an overnight, dramatic shift in demographics that shook up the political landscape in Orange County’s eighth largest city, which is two-thirds White. Rather, it was a change in how voting is conducted, and reflected a movement that has been coursing through Ca
  
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• Gov. Gavin Newsom issues another vague decree

  12-10-2020 16:00
  
  Gavin Newsom is fond — overly so — of declaring “big hairy, audacious goals” and doing something that implies he’s striving to achieve them.
  However, he’s been compelled to devote virtually all of his time to managing crises this year: the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by a recession as he shut down businesses to battle infection, a state budget deficit caused by the recession, record heat waves that overwhelmed the state’s power supply, and wildfires of h
  
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• Barrett confirmation hearing opens

  12-10-2020 15:35
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing began Monday as the Republican-led Senate charged ahead to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with President Donald Trump’s pick and cement the conservative court majority before Election Day.
  Barring a dramatic development, Republicans appear to have the votes to confirm the 48-year-old conservative appellate judge to a lifetime seat on the S
  
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• Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing opens

  12-10-2020 15:35
  
  By MARK SHERMAN, LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing began Monday as the Republican-led Senate charged ahead to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg with President Donald Trump’s pick and cement the conservative court majority before Election Day.
  Barring a dramatic development, Republicans appear to have the votes to confirm the 48-year-old conservative appellate judge to a lifetime seat on the S
  
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• Get government out of the boardroom

  12-10-2020 15:00
  
  At the end of last month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill establishing quotas for minorities on the boards of every publicly traded company in the state. That’s on top of a law enacted in 2018 that implemented quotas for women on corporate boards.
  The governor and his allies think they’re delivering wins for women and minorities. Thanks, Gavin, but we don’t need the help.
  The new law, Assembly Bill 979, stipulates that any California-headquartered, publicly traded co
  
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• Lakers’ 2020 season added up to even more than an NBA title

  12-10-2020 06:33
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The final moments of the longest season in NBA history were dominated by a feeling that ran entirely counter to the 13 months that preceded it:
  Absolute dead certainty.
  The Lakers smothered the Miami Heat, not surrendering any sliver of space willingly and pummeling them on the other end of the floor with bruising runs that have made LeBron James and Anthony Davis respected and feared in the basketball world.
  Championships are won with talent, which the Lakers had.
  
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• Lakers 2020 season added up to even more than an NBA title

  12-10-2020 06:33
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The final moments of the longest season in NBA history were dominated by a feeling that ran entirely counter to the 13 months that preceded it:
  Absolute dead certainty.
  The Los Angeles Lakers smothered the Miami Heat, not surrendering any sliver of space willingly and pummeling them on the other end of the floor with bruising runs that have made LeBron James and Anthony Davis respected and feared in the basketball world.
  Championships are won with talent, which the
  
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• Lakers fans gather to celebrate at Staples Center, despite warnings to avoid the area — arrests reported

  12-10-2020 06:09
  
  Thousands of Lakers fans gathered outside the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the team’s 17th NBA championship late Sunday, despite pleas by city leaders to avoid the area and large crowds because of the coronavirus.
  Police on horseback move people back as rowdy fans celebrate, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020, in Los Angeles, after the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Miami Heat in Game 6 of basketball’s NBA Finals to win the championship. (AP Photo/Jintak Han)
  Los Angeles p
  
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• Lakers fans gather to celebrate at Staples Center, despite warnings to avoid the area

  12-10-2020 06:09
  
  Thousands of Lakers fans gathered outside the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles to celebrate the team’s 17th NBA championship late Sunday, despite pleas by city leaders to avoid the area and large crowds because of the coronavirus.
  Helicopter footage showed a large raucous and jubilant crowd cheering and setting off fireworks in the streets outside the Staples Center. Many yelled “Kobe!”
  Shortly after 8:30 p.m., the CHP announced that the Pico Boulevard and 9th Street off-
  
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• Whicker: Forget the asterisks in a Lakers title run that had its own punctuation

  12-10-2020 05:42
  
  It began 11 days short of a year ago, when it was Opening Night, and the reconfigured Lakers lost to the reconfigured Clippers.
  Remember the assumptions that took hold.
  The Lakers were a couple of jigsaw pieces short. They had a new, fluid coaching staff, with Jason Kidd looming as a Plan B if Frank Vogel’s first months were shaky. They had two supreme players, but LeBron James was entering his 17th season and Anthony Davis’ connective tissue had failed him before. Kyle Kuzma would b
  
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• Kobe Bryant in Lakers’ hearts, on their minds after winning NBA title

  12-10-2020 05:42
  
  Now it’s done. The torch has been passed again, handed from George Mikan to Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain to Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal to Bryant and Pau Gasol and now to LeBron James and Anthony Davis.
  One must imagine Bryant proud, smiling and cheering.
  The Lakers won their record-tying 17 NBA championship with a commanding 106-93 victory Sunday over the Miami Heat in the decisive Game 6 of the Finals, a win that was 10 years in the
  
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• Danny Green joins LeBron James, two others in exclusive club of champs

  12-10-2020 05:41
  
  Wherever Danny Green goes, championships seem to follow.
  “Been very lucky,” he said Sunday after the Lakers clinched the 2020 NBA title by beating the Miami Heat 106-93 in Game 6 of the NBA Finals – a feat that qualified Green and LeBron James among just four players who have won titles with three franchises.
  The other two members of the club: Robert Horry and John Salley.
  James’ previous titles came in 2012 and 2013 with the Heat and in 2016 with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
  
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• LAFC overcomes early injuries to defeat Seattle in Western Conference showdown

  12-10-2020 05:18
  
  LOS ANGELES >> It isn’t often that a team has to use two substitutes within the first 13 minutes of a game, but Sunday, that’s the situation that LAFC found itself in.
  In the sixth minute, Mark-Anthony Kaye was subbed off with an ankle injury and seven minutes later, his replacement Andy Najar (hamstring) was taken off.
  “It doesn’t happen often,” LAFC coach Bob Bradley said of being forced to used two substitutes so early.
  LAFC’s fortune took a positive
  
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• Unofficial ballot drop boxes popping up throughout the state worry elections officials

  12-10-2020 04:19
  
  In a photo posted to social media last week, a young man wearing a mask with Orange County congressional candidate Michelle Steel’s name on it is holding a mail ballot and giving a thumbs up next to a box about the size of a file cabinet labeled “Official ballot drop off box.”
  The post, from Jordan Tygh, a regional field director for the California Republican Party, encouraged people to message him for “convenient locations” to drop their own ballots.
  The problem is
  
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• Lakers win 17th NBA title with dominant Game 6 effort

  12-10-2020 04:15
  
  Now LeBron James will be hailed as Laker royalty.
  “What I’ve learned being a Laker,” James said last week, as he and his teammates closed in on the franchise’s 17th NBA title and his fourth, “is that the Laker faithful don’t give a damn what you’ve done before.”
  Forever more, those fans will be indebted to King James.
  And to A.D., to Playoff Rondo, AC Fresh and KCP …
  Together on Sunday, in their 95th day in the enclosed campus at Walt Disney
  
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• Alexander: The Lakers’ 17th title is for all those who have come before

  12-10-2020 04:02
  
  This one was for Kobe, of course, and for Gianna. A season had been dedicated to them, and so too should be a championship.
  But the historical import of this, the 17th NBA title in Lakers’ franchise history, demands that it also be for many others who have contributed along the path to 17, those who succeeded and especially those who fell short.
  For those who haven’t yet figured out the significance of 17, here’s a hint: They darned sure have noticed in Boston, and wherever els
  
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• Lakers’ NBA championships by the numbers

  12-10-2020 04:01
  
  —– NBA TEAMS WITH TWO OR MORE TITLES —–
  Lakers – 17
  Boston Celtics – 17
  Chicago Bulls – 6
  Golden State Warriors – 6
  San Antonio Spurs – 5
  Miami Heat – 3
  Detroit Pistons – 3
  Philadelphia 76ers – 3
  Houston Rockets – 2
  New York Knicks – 2
  —– LAKERS CHAMPIONSHIP SEASONS/RESULTS —–
  2020 – Lakers def. Heat, 4-2 (MVP – LeBron James)
  2010 – Lakers def. Celtics, 4-3 (MVP – K
  
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